Bradley John Murdoch Takes Secret About Peter Falconio's Body To His Grave

Bradley John Murdoch, who killed British backpacker Peter Falconio in the outback in 2001, has died; The NSW government has launched a ‘pattern book’ of house designs that could be approved within 10 days; German backpacker Carolina Wilga has opened up about her experience being lost in the Western Australian outback for 12 days; Hard drives containing unreleased music from Beyoncé have been stolen in a car theft.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Mumma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on. Hi. I'm Cassandra Green from Mamma MEA's
twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with your Headlines for Wednesday,
July sixteenth, notorious outback killer Bradley John Murdoch died from

(00:34):
throat cancer in palliative care on Tuesday. His passing came
twenty four years and one day after his evil crime.
On July fourteenth, two thousand and one, Murdock flagged down
a Combee van carrying two young British backpackers on a
remote stretch of the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek. Backpackers
Peter Falconio and his girlfriend Joanne Lee's had been on

(00:56):
the trip of a lifetime around Australia. Falconio got out
of his car to speak with Murdoch, who said he'd
seen sparks coming from their exhaust pipe. Lees heard a
gunshot and soon she was being tied up at gunpoint
and thrown into Murdock's tray as he went to deal
with Peter's body. Joanne managed to roll out of the
tray and escape into the bush, hiding for five hours

(01:17):
as Murdoch and his dog hunted her until another vehicle
came by and saved her. Initially, Lees herself faced questioning
about Falconio's disappearance, but later a tip off led police
to Murdoch, who was jailed for murder on the basis
of DNA evidence in two thousand and five. He never
admitted to his crime and takes the secret of where
Peter's body is located to his grave. One of the

(01:39):
Lee detectives on the case, Colleen Gwynn, in twenty sixteen,
said she didn't think Murdoch would ever reveal where Falconio's
body was. However, authorities still hope someone else might know,
with Northern Territory Police announcing a five hundred thousand dollars
reward to encourage them to come forward, the Falconio family
stay hopeful that their son's remains will one day be found.

(02:02):
The new South Wales government has announced a new pattern
book of house designs that could be approved for construction
within ten days in a bid to accelerate house building
in Australia's most expensive market. The book of low rise
Designs includes eight terrace, townhouse and manor house plans available
at heavily subsidized prices to encourage market activity. The government

(02:24):
hopes that those locked out of housing due to rising
costs and a difficult planning system may see it as
their first chance to build homes. Premier Chris Mins has
previously declared a war on red tape, blaming the state's
sluggish planning system for its poor progress on national housing targets.
New South Wales is committed to building three hundred and
seventy seven thousand new homes by July twenty twenty nine,

(02:47):
but data has consistently shown that it is on track
to fall well short. The designs will be available for
one thousand dollars, but heavy government subsidies will mean they
will cost just one dollar per pattern for the first
six months. The government estimates the designs with typically cost
upwards of twenty thousand dollars if developed through an architect.
German backpacker Caroline of ville Yulga has opened up about

(03:11):
her experience being lost in the Western Australian outback for
twelve days. After losing control and bogging her van, she
went in search of civilization. Following the sun westward and
quickly becoming lost. She survived on the minimal food she
had with her and water in rain puddles, trekking twenty
four kilometers and losing twelve kilos in the process. She

(03:31):
did so in freezing nighttime temperatures, even finding shelter in
a cave one night to stay alive. She was found
by driver Tanya Henley, who owns a station in the area,
on Friday, near the remote West Australian town of Beacon,
three hundred kilometers from Perth. Vilga recently posted from her
hospital bed, surrounded by foodstuffs from the German consulate, thankful

(03:53):
to be safe, dry and warm. The twenty six year
old suffered cuts, bruises, midgiw bytes, dehydration and fatigue during
her ordeal. Police Commissioner Coal Blanche said miss Vilga's survival
was remarkable given the amount of time she had spent
in the wilderness. Hard dry containing unreleased music from Beyonce
and several other items were stolen from a car rented

(04:15):
by her choreographer, Christopher Grant on the Cowboy Carter tour.
According to CNN, Atlanta police responded to the nine one
one call in which the choreographer explained that the thieves
had taken off with a computer which had details about
someone of a high status. The laptops and hard drives
contained watermarked music, unreleased music, footage, plans, and future set lists.

(04:38):
An arrest warrant has been issued for an unnamed suspect,
according to Atlanta Police's Last Knee Department. That's your evening
news headline. On Thursday's episode of The Quikie, we delve
into the world of AI clothing ads and the dark
past of outback killer Bradley John Murdock. Listen to The
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